“We were up on boscs last year, and we’re going to be up on the bartletts this year,” said Matt Roberts, sales manager for Sedro-Woolley, Wash.-based Viva Tierra Organic. “Greene & Hemly continues to transition more acres to organic.”

The pears are grown by Greene & Hemly and by other suppliers whose products is packed there.

“It will be a good crop coming on top of a larger-than-normal crop out of the Southern Hemisphere,” Roberts said. “There hasn’t been any lack of pears. Last year the Southern Hemisphere was pretty much over at this point. This year there’s still more to sell — later varieties, not bartletts — but it’s wrapping up pretty quickly.”

“It’s supposed to be a nice crop this year, clean and better sized than last,” he said of California organic pears.